From VR sexcapades in Maniac to amorous AI in Osmosis, the streaming service keeps bombarding us with disturbing tech hookups. Enough!
Netflix, the biggest streaming service in the world, cordially invites you to jerk off to your computer. Take a look around: everyone’s doin’ it. In dark sci-fi comedy Maniac we are introduced to Justin Theroux’s gonzo research scientist Dr James Mantleray via a scene set in virtual reality, where a pixellated purple angel gives him a most disturbing orgasm. His virtual self, donning a cloud-white anime hairdo, trembles with joy in a celestial pool above the mountains of Digitalia, while in the real world his balding, bespectacled face groans from behind a cheap-looking, conspicuously dirty VR headset.
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